Notes From Copenhagen

Photos by Jane Bruce
You can get a sunburn in Copenhagen. I knew this, I think, before I went. But knowing is not the same as believing, and I didn’t yet believe that I could get a sunburn so close to the Arctic Circle when it wasn’t even fully summer, but burn I did; the straps of my jumpsuit leaving a very white X in the middle of my very pink back. The X is still there now, nine days after arriving back in Brooklyn, though it’s harder to see because the pink has faded to alm